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NPR's Michele Norris speaks with NPR's Jason Beaubien in Zimbabwe. Beaubien updates the political turmoil there. Zimbabwe's main opposition party accuses President Robert Mugabe's government of sanctioning the torture of its supporters.

Natasha Yefimova reports from Moscow on a legislative proposal by President Vladimir Putin that would substantially reduce the number of political parties in Russia. Opponents say the legislation poses a threat to Russian democracy because the remaining parties would be too easy for the Kremlin to control.

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.

For all the formality of an Oval Office address, the partial shutdown is no closer to being over, and Democrats and Republicans are living in very different worlds when it comes to immigration policy.

The third and final presidential debate will be held on Wednesday in Las Vegas. David Greene talks to columnist and commentator Cokie Roberts and Mollie Hemingway, senior editor at The Federalist.

A wave of departing medical professionals in rural areas threatens to leave gaping holes in these health care systems and local economies, triggering a death spiral that may be hard to stop.

President Bush's twin daughters were treated like movie stars when they arrived at a New York party celebrating the Republican Convention. Los Angeles Times columnist Patt Morrison says the glamour factor is a staple at political conventions.

Host Howard Berkes talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about political events this week. Vice President Al Gore has selected Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman to be his running mate. Lieberman, would be the first Jewish vice presidential candidate in American history. A formal announcement from Gore is expected tomorrow in Tennessee.

Linda talks with senior citizens who live at the On Top Of The World retirement community in Clearwater, Florida. This is a community of mostly Republican seniors that has served as a stopover for political candidates. Florida has cast its votes for the Republican presidential candidate since 1976...but these seniors seem to have a lackluster support for presumptive Republican nominee Bob Dole.

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports on the impact Reverend Jesse Jackson's latest scandals have had on his previously active political life. Jackson was conspicuously absent from the riots in Cincinnati earlier this month, after a unarmed black man was shot and killed by a white police officer.